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Shelly Manne

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Shelly Manne - drums (1920 - 1984)

As a jazz drummer, studio musician, bandleader and businessman, Shelly Manne was one of the mostprolific instrumentalists of modern times. “I’ve really had the best of both worlds,” he said in 1983. “I’vekept busy playing jazz, and between engagements I’ve had the studios to fall back on.”

The New York City-born musician was the son of Max Manne, a percussionist who pioneered thesynchronization of sound with motion pictures and cartoons, and nephew of Morris Manne, who didsound effects for Popeye cartoons. Shelly was introduced to jazz as a youth and was greatly influencedby Jo Jones and Dave Tough. During the early 1940s, he subbed for Tough, who suffered fromalcoholism and epilepsy, in both the Benny Goodman and Joe Marsala bands. In the ’50s, Manne playedthe role of Tough in two motion pictures: The Five Pennies and The Gene Krupa Story.

Album

Jazz From The Pacific Northwest

Label: Reel to Real
Released: 2024
Track listing: Side A: Stop, Look and Listen; The Vamp's Blues. Side B: Quartet (Suite in Four Movements). Side C: Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise; Summertime; Dearly Beloved. Side D: Funny; Secret Love; Surrey With The Fringe On Top.

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Article: Multiple Reviews

The Jazz Detective Strikes Again

Read "The Jazz Detective Strikes Again" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Producer Zev Feldman, like Joe DiMaggio, has done it again. In May of 1941, DiMaggio began a major league baseball hitting streak. People followed his exploits game after game and hit after hit. DiMaggio's amazing record of 56 consecutive games still stands to this day. Same can be said of Feldman. His detective work, finding rare ...

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Article: Bailey's Bundles

Late-Period Art Pepper Box Sets

Read "Late-Period Art Pepper Box Sets" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


In his essay, “Endgame," which opens the liner notes to Art Pepper: The Complete Galaxy Recordings (Galaxy, 1989), music critic Gary Giddens said of Art Pepper's professional comeback: “Pepper's sudden reappearance in 1975 was something of a second coming in musical circles. For the next seven years, his frequent recordings and tours, and ...

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Article: Reassessing

Shelly Manne and His Men at the Black Hawk 1

Read "Shelly Manne and His Men at the Black Hawk 1" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


For many years, but certainly for most of the '50s and '60s, the top jazz drummer--by public opinion--was Shelly Manne. Although he was typically associated with West Coast Jazz, (a term he disliked), Manne had come West from jny:New York City in the '50s and settled in jny:Los Angeles in the halcyon days of the post-war ...

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Article: Highly Opinionated

Give Your Regards to Broadway—and Hollywood

Read "Give Your Regards to Broadway—and Hollywood" reviewed by Con Chapman


Those who recognized the complexity and beauty of jazz early on--such as twentieth century French critic Hugues Panassié--rightly characterized it as American's unacknowledged classical music. Their sentiment came to fruition in the wrong way by the end of the century when the genre had fallen from its peak to its current lowly status, tied for last ...

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Go West! The Contemporary Records Albums

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: I'm An Old Cowhand; Solitude; Come, Gone; Wagon Wheels; There is No Greater Love; Way Out West; I've Told Ev'ry Little Star; Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody; How High the Moon; You; I've Found A New Baby; Along Together; In the Chapel in the Moonlight; The Song is You; I'm An Old Cowhand (alternate); Come, Gone (alternate); Way Out West (alternate); The Song is You; You (alternate); I've Found a New Baby (alternate).

Album

West Side Story

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Something's Coming; Jet Song; Tonight; I Feel Pretty; Gee, Officer Krupke; Cool; Maria; America.

Album

Modern Jazz Performances Of Songs From My Fair Lady

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Get Me To The Church On Time; On The Street Where You Live; I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face; Wouldn't It Be Loverly; Ascot Gavotte; Show Me; With A Little Bit of Luck; I Could Have Danced All Night.

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Article: Album Review

Curtis Counce: You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce!

Read "You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce!" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


When bassist Curtis Counce died of a heart attack at the age of 37 in 1963, the jazz world was deprived of a major talent. Not that one would have known much, for his death, while noted, was not extensively covered. Counce, a Midwesterner, had come to California and to jny:Los Angeles to learn his craft, ...


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